{"id":546241,"date":"2010-04-28T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamazingworldofpsychiatry.wordpress.com\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:58:24","slug":"review-learning-from-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546241","title":{"rendered":"Review: Learning From Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

The paper reviewed here is ‘Learning from Experience’ by Jerry Tew, Colin Gell and Simon Foster and freely available here<\/a>. This is a 66-page document which outlines material useful for course instructors in higher education mental health courses to enable the involvement of service users and carers in service development. The intended audience is somewhat wider however and this is explained more fully in ‘The Purpose of the Guide’. The authors then discuss how students typically learn about mental health subject matter in courses such as medicine and psychology. Forming a partnership with service users and carers is then contextualised in ‘Setting the scene’ where it is identified as one of the ten essential shared capabilities by the National Institute for Mental Health in England. They go on to write that<\/p>\n

‘Service users and carers have a unique contribution to make to training in core professional skills, such as listening, communication, empathy, advocacy and offering counselling or advice<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

They further write about the experience of involving service users in the teaching thus<\/p>\n

‘Also it requires a humility that allows teaching staff to give up any vestiges of a superior \u2018expert\u2019 status based on \u2018knowing best……..Teaching staff may learn new knowledge, skills and ideas from the service users and carers with whom they are working, and benefit from ongoing and constructive challenges to their value base<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

Potential benefits for service users are also discussed including the contribution that this can make to recovery.\u00a0 The authors include a useful section ‘Pointers to good practice’. In the third section, the authors present the multiple ways in which service user contribution has been realised. These approaches range from inclusion in training through to e-modules, drama and experience sharing. There is also a discussion of how service users can contribute to course planning with examples as well as for student selection, student assessment and course participation. The authors then discuss some of the practical aspects of implementing these suggestions identifying possible barriers as well as presenting a template. They look at issues such as capacity, infrastructure and employment or contracting. The authors then include a section on evaluation with some useful feedback forms included. The document finished with the conclusions and appendix.<\/p>\n

This is a useful document for organisers\/trainers of mental health courses. Some of the suggestions here would be suitable for application in service development also.<\/p>\n

Call for Authors: If you are interested in writing an article or series of articles for this blog please write to the e-mail address below. Copyright can be retained.<\/strong> Index: <\/strong>An index of the site can be found here<\/a>. The page contains links to all of the articles in the blog in chronological order. Twitter: <\/strong>You can follow \u2018The Amazing World of Psychiatry\u2019 Twitter by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a>. Podcast: <\/strong>You can listen to this post on Odiogo by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a> (there may be a small delay between publishing of the blog article and the availability of the podcast). It is available for a limited period. TAWOP Channel: <\/strong>You can follow the TAWOP Channel on YouTube by clicking on this\u00a0link<\/a>. Responses: <\/strong>If you have any comments, you can leave them below or alternatively e-mail justinmarley17@yahoo.co.uk. Disclaimer: <\/strong>The comments made here represent the opinions of the author and do not represent the profession or any body\/organisation. The comments made here are not meant as a source of medical advice and those seeking medical advice are advised to consult with their own doctor. The author is not responsible for the contents of any external sites that are linked to in this blog.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The paper reviewed here is ‘Learning from Experience’ by Jerry Tew, Colin Gell and Simon Foster and freely available here. This is a 66-page document which outlines material useful for course instructors in higher education mental health courses to enable the involvement of service users and carers in service development. The intended audience is somewhat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}